The Construction Of Modern Science

Author : Richard S. Westfall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521218634
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Construction of Modern Science written by Richard S. Westfall and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interplay between the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition and the mechanical philosophy during the 'scientific revolution'.

Author : K. Raj
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230625312
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relocating Modern Science written by K. Raj and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the history of science, it demonstrates the crucial roles of circulation and intercultural encounter for their emergence.

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521567626
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages written by Edward Grant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1997 book views the substantive achievements of the Middle Ages as they relate to early modern science.

Author : Alberto Perez-Gomez
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262660555
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science written by Alberto Perez-Gomez and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1985-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in architectural theory and practice today. Between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century, the ancient arts of architecture were being profoundly transformed by the scientific revolution. This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in architectural theory and practice today. Throughout, it relates the major architectural treatises of successive generations to the larger culture and the writings of philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. The book leads the reader through the controversy that was generated by Claude Perrault in the seventeenth century. His writings began to cast doubt on the absolute aesthetic value of the classical orders and the "perfect" proportions that were architecture's legacy from Pythagorean times. Thus the once immutable "invisible" system lost its special status forever. The book focuses in particular on eighteenth-century developments in the science of mechanics and emerging techniques in structural analysis which slowly entered the architectural treatises and found their way into practice, often by way of civil and military engineers. And by the nineteenth century, the book notes, even architectural rendering and drawing were radically changed through the introduction of new descriptive and projective geometries. Tracing these fundamental changes in architectural intentions, Pérez-Gómez challenges many popular misconceptions about the theory and history of modern architecture. At the same time, he suggests an intangible loss, that of a culture's power to express through a building its total mathematical, mystical, and magical world-view.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900422534X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Body written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the implications of neurobiology and the scientific worldview on aspects of religious experience, belief, and practice, focusing especially on the body and the construction of religious meaning.

Author : Richard Dawkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199216819
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing written by Richard Dawkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory.This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whoseworks have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science.

Author : Londa L. Schiebinger
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813535319
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature's Body written by Londa L. Schiebinger and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants were found to reproduce sexually, eighteenth-century botanists ascribed to them passionate relations, polyandrous marriages, and suicidal incest, and accounts of steamy plant sex began to infiltrate the botanical literature of the day. Naturalists also turned their attention to the great apes just becoming known to eighteenth-century Europeans, clothing the females in silk vestments and training them to sip tea with the modest demeanor of English matrons, while imagining the males of the species fully capable of ravishing women.

Author : Undo Uus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blindness of Modern Science written by Undo Uus and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard S. Westfall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521292955
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Construction of Modern Science written by Richard S. Westfall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the interplay between the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition and the mechanical philosophy during the 'scientific revolution'.

Author : Lisa Jardine
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385720017
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ingenious Pursuits written by Lisa Jardine and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2000-12-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the lively interplay and frequently cutthroat competition between creative minds. The great thinkers of that extraordinary age, including Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, and Christopher Wren, are shown in the context in which they lived and worked. We learn of the correspondences they kept with their equally passionate colleagues and come to understand the unique collaborative climate that fostered virtuoso discoveries in the areas of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry, botany, geography, and engineering. Ingenious Pursuits brilliantly chronicles the true intellectual revolution that continues to shape our very understanding of ourselves, and of the world around us.